In all things ſhewing themſclues patterns of good works , in doFrine ſhew- po ee 299 by Taying, —_— Geariles by the light of Nature gip ing incorruptneſs, gravity, ſmeerity, &c. Tit. 2. 7. Thoſe who teach wt c = eclined ſuc —_ abomination ; by whomis not ty be 4}, and five it), are no good Miniſters of Chriſt, they cannot = + = _ more —_— part, butthe more civilizeg ator lay unto people, Be ze followers of Me. x = . _ _ _ nt - 10 phe were. c By having bu Þ; 3, For ths cauſe have I ene unto you Timothens | rs ws in this plceis no co be unterſod, che mai £1 a * who 15 my beloved ſon; and fairhful in the Lord », wife, as his wife, while his father was yet alive (42 cs faber 2. wins the bring you into remembrance of my WAays| cious Interpreters think) becauſe hardly any Nation would > Ve
which be in Chrilt », as I teach every where in eve-| endured a ſon openly ro have married the widow of his fy And in 2 Cor. 7. 12. there is mention made not only of "a: * at
ry church 0. rh Songs eee: —_ ; d ſuffered the wrong ; whi ! This Timeby, Paul found at Lyra, 7s 16.:1. His Father| TOM" me, OT Ty IO 0 8 3 Which latter m was a Greck, bis Mother a Teweſs, - (hu Paul circumciſed him ; — -— himielf, ſo as there was both Inceſt and Whore her name was Eunice, the Daughter of Lo, 2 Tim. 1. 5. Paultook 1n TS Tat. 2 And ye are puffed up 4, and have not rather
him along with him in his Travels,he was ordained by the impolt- tion of the hands of the Presbytery, 1 Tim. 4. 14. 2 7im. 1, 6. mourned, that he that hath done this deed, might he
» Paul calls him his beloved 4; omar noma Py _ -_ Gs taken away from you e. al Son, or becauſe he was im 1nitru in the Goſpel : he q : calls him his ewn Son in the Geith, 1 Tim. 1. 2. Faithful in the Lord, Ps. _ Sas ſo — od | =—w acoenl amen and gifts, and becauſe he was {zithful in the work of the Lord, in the Buſineſs|, - re # erate cn = racer Miniſters, and of the Miniſtry. » He (faith the Apoſtle) hall bring; ro your remems| (pn os = *i rye AR oy => intereſt of th, brance my wajs in the Lord, he ſhall acquaint you both what Do-|(4;. Gan rar, ob ongoing th of Ch ” cuure to deal with Erine I have preached, and what courſe of life I have lived. | Tp; cu _ hos reaſon of thei rilt ought to have done, o How I have preached ro every Church, what rules I have g1- rejoicing dchelaniey, hs had acer the Coſt) Farm an 4r ngts phony. had wh Church, and how I have walked elchentoocagncl ms which the "Pool yp h_—_ . triumphed in this inceſtuous perſon, being one of thei: 'T...; 13 Now ſome are puffed up, as though-I would not| (which can. hardly be awe, ) ” They onghe mh. Tcke come unto You p- mourned, keeping times of Faſting and Prayer on the behalf o p I hear that ſome of your Teachers, and ſome of your Mem. this ſcandalous Member amongſt them, thar his fin might / bers, are ſo conceited of themſelves, that they would perſuade ' his due ſenſe of it, and repentance for it) have been forgiven [f by you, that I durſt nor ſee their faces, or come to diſcourſe with | and the blot upon their Church, by their having ſuch + pa them face ro face, and therefore would not come unto you. their fellowſhip, mighr be waſhed out,and by his being caſt ow of 19 * But I will come to you ſhortly "Sus if the Lord theirfellowſhip and communion. It was no time for them to plo. Sq 'will, and will know, not the ſpeech of them chat are [7 2 their gifts, and be puffed up with the parts of thiir 7:ae, * Atts 18. puffed up, but the power r. Me = —_ when they _ _ ——— jar them by zpurid 27, g Paul intended in his journey to Rome to paſsthrough Maceds- —_ ag a = fun - reat deal more Rom. 15. nia and Achaia,but he knew that God could hinder him, and there- q : P j BOY Ng. 32. fore he adds, if God will; neither did Pax! go to them ſoſoon as '3 For I verily as abſent in body » but preſent Ins Jam.4.15. he intended; bur had time before he went ro write another Epi- |Ipirit f, have || judged- already, as though I wer {He, as we ſhall afterwards find. All Chriſtians are bound when | prefent concerning him that hath fo done ti they promiſe or reſolve upon any journeys, to underſtand, If Got | qe n will, and to have in their thoughts the power of God co hinder | - f Th oak L be abſ; bodil c " them, and to ſpeak with ſubmiſſion to his pleaſure who counteth A" \ r Yi þ = as to meh oauy 9" ence, yet God having their ſteps, and telleth their wandrings, and ordereth their ſteps, i, Þ TT IO y prepoam _ - - _ his Church though they be not ſtritly bound at all times to uſe thisform of you = Ren Rong os ok _ OE Ch wy = for ſpeech. » And when I come, Then I ſhall underſtand theſe Teach- O41, 1G Lhich God hath repoſed in me. 1 d dns,
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conducive it is to the ends of the Goſpel, and how conſonant to | : the truth of rhe Goſpel, what good they do amongſt you, what! #4 In the Name of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt b, when
manner of lives they ive: theſcare the things that my eyes ſhall ye are gathered together, and my ſpirit z, with * the be upon, and which I ſhall regard. : power of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt &.
* Chap. 2. 20 For * the kingdom of God z not 1n word, but h Either, having ſolemnly called uponthe Name of the Lordſeſus 7) NOWEer 7, Chriſt for his council and dire&ion, or bleſling your ation, thatit
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